A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets

A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
2005
Drama
TV Movie
1h 25m
Published in 1609, William Shakespeare's collection of 154 sonnets comprises the greatest lyric sequence of poems in world literature. At the centre of this sonnet sequence lies a mystery that has endured for 400 years. 126 of these sonnets are addressed to a "Fair Youth" and 26 are addressed to a "Dark Lady". What fair youth inspired such passion and who was Shakespeare's dark lady?
Directed by:
John McKayWriter:
William BoydThe son of a day laborer, William Boyd moved with his family to Tulsa, Oklahoma, when he was seven. His parents died while he was in his early teens, forcing him to quit school and take such jobs as a grocery clerk, surveyor and oil field worker. He went to Hollywood in 1919, already gray-haired. In 1935 he was offered the lead role in Hop-a-long Cassidy (1935) (named because of a limp caused by an earlier bullet wound). He changed the original pulp-fiction character to its opposite, made sure t
Starring:
Rupert Graves, Indira Varma, Anna Chancellor, Nicholas Rowe, Nicky Henson, Andrew Tiernan, Zoë Wanamaker, Alan Williams, Tom SturridgeRatings & Reviews
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Directed by:
John McKayWriter:
William BoydThe son of a day laborer, William Boyd moved with his family to Tulsa, Oklahoma, when he was seven. His parents died while he was in his early teens, forcing him to quit school and take such jobs as a grocery clerk, surveyor and oil field worker. He went to Hollywood in 1919, already gray-haired. In 1935 he was offered the lead role in Hop-a-long Cassidy (1935) (named because of a limp caused by an earlier bullet wound). He changed the original pulp-fiction character to its opposite, made sure t
Starring:
Rupert Graves, Indira Varma, Anna Chancellor, Nicholas Rowe, Nicky Henson, Andrew Tiernan, Zoë Wanamaker, Alan Williams, Tom Sturridge
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